meta: Process meta date during scan pass so that the date will always affect sorting in inlines.

IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm

@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
 		$pagestate{$page}{meta}{authorurl}=$value if safeurl($value);
 		# fallthrough
 	}
+	elsif ($key eq 'date') {
+		eval q{use Date::Parse};
+		if (! $@) {
+			my $time = str2time($value);
+			$IkiWiki::pagectime{$page}=$time if defined $time;
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (! defined wantarray) {
 		# avoid collecting duplicate data during scan pass
@@ -128,14 +135,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
 	}
 
 	# Metadata collection that happens only during preprocessing pass.
-	if ($key eq 'date') {
-		eval q{use Date::Parse};
-		if (! $@) {
-			my $time = str2time($value);
-			$IkiWiki::pagectime{$page}=$time if defined $time;
-		}
-	}
-	elsif ($key eq 'permalink') {
+	if ($key eq 'permalink') {
 		if (safeurl($value)) {
 			$pagestate{$page}{meta}{permalink}=$value;
 			push @{$metaheaders{$page}}, scrub('<link rel="bookmark" href="'.encode_entities($value).'" />', $destpage);

debian/changelog

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ ikiwiki (2.71) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * aggregate: If a feed fails to be downloaded, try again immediatly
     next time aggregation is run, even if the usual time has not passed.
     Closes: #508622 (Michael Gold)
+  * meta: Process meta date during scan pass so that the date will always
+    affect sorting in inlines.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:02:10 -0500
 

doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn

@@ -309,4 +309,6 @@ available at the time that they are inlined, and the newer unix ctime is
 used. On the second build, the meta data has already been recorded.
 
 This can probably be avoided by processing meta date at scan time.
+
+Verified, fix works. [[done]]
 --[[Joey]]